30 Anos de História
2017
The National Ethnographic Museum of Guinea-Bissau, inaugurated in May 1988, housed an unique collection of photographs taken in the field and displayed alongside its objects. The photographs, objects and building itself were lost during the civil war of 1998–9, when the Museum hosted Senegalese troops who joined the governmental forces. However not everything was destroyed; 450 sheets of contact prints did survive, documenting the collections that the Museum once housed in the country’s capital Bissau, and the ethnographic work its staff undertook during the 1980s in order to found their museum. The contact prints, so called for the way they are developed directly from negatives, have been revisited, scanned, enlarged (‘blown-up’) and reproduced to tell the story of the Museum and its history.
Curator Ana Temudo
Exhibition identity: Poster, folded brochure and exhibition canvas
In collaboration with Irina Pereira
30 Anos de História
2017
The National Ethnographic Museum of Guinea-Bissau, inaugurated in May 1988, housed an unique collection of photographs taken in the field and displayed alongside its objects. The photographs, objects and building itself were lost during the civil war of 1998–9, when the Museum hosted Senegalese troops who joined the governmental forces. However not everything was destroyed; 450 sheets of contact prints did survive, documenting the collections that the Museum once housed in the country’s capital Bissau, and the ethnographic work its staff undertook during the 1980s in order to found their museum. The contact prints, so called for the way they are developed directly from negatives, have been revisited, scanned, enlarged (‘blown-up’) and reproduced to tell the story of the Museum and its history.
Curator Ana Temudo
Exhibition identity: Poster, folded brochure and exhibition canvas
In collaboration with Irina Pereira
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